mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to Steven Horn at 15:49 on 17 Apr 2003:

 ml> cheap depends on one's perspective...

And one's income.:-)

 ml> w2k, wnt and newer stuff all manage the system resources
 ml> differently than win9x ever did... we're speaking of memory and
 ml> such allocations... i've one program here that is fine under w2k
 ml> but is a resource hog under w98se... just loading it on w98se eats
 ml> up 35% of each of the resource catagories that the resource meter
 ml> shows...

I do recall that when I ran Win98SE, I liked memory managers.  I've never
bothered with one on my Win2K boxes.


 SH> Does Linux not have a DOS box available?

 ml> yes and no... yes as in one can install DOSEMU... no in that its
 ml> not like one might think... its kinda of like an addon in an
 ml> emulated machine... you have an image of the DOS flavor you want to
 ml> run and configure DOSEMU to load that in the emulation and run it
 ml> from there... yes, DRDOS, MSDOS, FreeDOS, whateverDOS...

Will the emulator run while other applications or processes are running? 

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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